How do we update faces? Effects of gaze direction and facial expressions on working memory updating

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Artuso, Caterina ^a   Palladino, Paola ^a   Ricciardelli, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Biological binding; Facial dimensions; Facial expression; Gaze direction; Social cognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867130560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00362     Document Type: Article

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